The relationship of self-rated function and self-rated health to concurrent functional ability, functional decline, and mortality: Findings from the Nun Study

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages

  Greiner, Philip A ^a   Snowdon, David A ^a   Greiner, Lydia H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLERGY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL TEST; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 0029841085     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/51B.5.S234     Document Type: Article

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